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Being an Engineer at Baxter means you play a critical role in helping us achieve our mission to save and sustain lives. From innovative product design through to production and patient delivery, our Engineers are key to delivering results for our customers and patients worldwide.
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Principal Electrical Engineer - Automation Controls
This is where you save and sustain lives
At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You’ll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.
Baxter’s products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.
Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.
Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives— where your purpose accelerates our mission.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- With minimal guidance, schedules and leads a team through the planning and execution of a smaller project or defined piece of a larger project. This includes constructing detailed, accurate project schedules, interfacing with development groups and technical support groups.
- Act independently with minimal supervision in developing large scale PLC programs, HMI Systems, vision systems, and servo systems.
- Able to interface with design, engineering, technicians, plant personnel, and external vendors to assure successful design, fabrication and assembly of manufacturing equipment.
- Able to contribute to cost estimating of the control engineering portion of major capital budget items, track project budgets, monitor and contribute to the spending of approved project funds.
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks across multiple projects.
- Continuously improve department processes and advance standardization related to controls technology and programming.
- Investigate and analyze field issues and develop/evaluate/implement design improvements.
- May indirectly supervises/coordinates engineers and/or technicians on assigned work.
Qualifications
- BS in Electrical Engineering or related engineering discipline with 5 or more years relevant and progressive engineering work experience.
- Experience directly working in or actively supporting a dynamic manufacturing operation is preferred.
- Working knowledge of manufacturing equipment electrical and pneumatic systems.
- Experience with electrical control system design and relevant CAD software, preferably Solidworks Electrical.
- Must have experience with electrical and control system design of manufacturing equipment with the following systems: Rockwell Automation Software (including RSLogix5000/Studio 5000) and HMI Systems (FactoryTalk View Studio ME/SE). Experience with robotic programming (Fanuc, Omron, Staubli), vision systems (Cognex), as well as healthcare specific applications are a plus.
- Ability to communicate and persuade customers, partners, and management on recommended courses of action with minimal assistance using both written and verbal methods.
- Effectively operate in and may facilitate cross-functional teams with guidance.
- Must be able to provide solutions that reflect understanding business objectives and cost implications.
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